Landscape Logs files
Landscape generates several log files in /var/log/landscape:
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anonymous-metrics.log: logs from the anonymous-metrics cron about the Ubuntu version, Landscape server version and the number of registered computers. -
api.log: log for API server; the API services handles requests from landscape-api clients -
appserver.log: output of the application server -
async-frontend.log: log for async-frontend server; the async front end delivers AJAX-style content to the web user interface -
distributed-lock.log: log for the distributed lock, which ensures there is at most one instance of scripts running at a time -
hash-id-databases.log: logs from the script which builds the list of available packages -
job-handler.log: log for job-handler server; the job handler service controls individual back-end tasks on the server -
landscape-profiles.log: output from the cron job generating profiles -
landscape-quickstart.log: post installation script logs -
landscape-setup.log: logs from the setup script -
maintenance-script.log: output of that cron job; removes old monitoring data and performs other maintenance tasks -
message_server.log: output of message server; the message server handles communication between the clients and the server -
meta-releases.log: log from the meta-releases script, which checks periodically if there are new ubuntu releases -
package-search.log: log from the package-search service; this service allows searching for packages by name through the web interface -
package-upload.log: output of package-upload server, which is used in repository management for upload pockets, which are repositories that hold packages that are uploaded to them by authorized users -
pingserver.log: output of pingserver; the pingserver tracks client heartbeats to watch for unresponsive clients -
process-alerts.log: output of the cron job used to trigger alerts and send out alert email messages -
syncldsreleases.log: daily cron job that checks for new self-hosted Landscape release versions -
update-security-db.log: output of the cron job that checks for new Ubuntu Security Notices -
update-alerts.log: output of that cron job. Used to determine which computers are offline -
usn-script.log: output from the usn-script, which process the new data from the Ubuntu Security Notices